Example sentences of "[that] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population of the town doubled in the last forty years of the eighteenth century ( thirty-five thousand people in 1760 ; seventy-three thousand in 1801 ) , but it was as yet far from being the dark and horrible landscape that it eventually became . |
| 2 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 3 | The ILP was so worried by this possibility that it eventually disassociated itself from calls for dockers to boycott coal and oil shipments to Italy for fear that ‘ working-class sanctions ’ could not be distinguished publicly from League sanctions and would help to create a psychology for war against Italy . ’ |
| 4 | But the fact that it eventually arrived in Germany was largely thanks to two German MPs , Ursula Seiler-Albring and Ina Albowitz . |
| 5 | Such was the dismay of the Monis government that it hastily announced its intention to annul the laws of 1908 and 1911 , weakly declaring that it was ‘ abandoning the territorial delimitations which may provoke divisions among Frenchmen ’ . |
| 6 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 7 | Mother always got annoyed when that story came up in conversation , and I made sure that it frequently did . |
| 8 | However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future . |
| 9 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 10 | What I wanted to say was that when I read the Annual Report I was rather surprised to find that there is no reference to the er report of the committee under the chairmanship of Bob , Bob on the organization of the R Y A and then I realized that it probably did n't come to the Council till after the end of the year that we have under consideration but it did seem to me that it has some contentious and some very interesting and rather good points in it and I wonder if we could be told how the consideration of it is getting on . |
| 11 | The remarkable feature of Kallibunker 's fur was that it completely lacked the usual long guard hairs found on all other cats . |
| 12 | The patient was ' indeed able to control her pain to the extent that it completely disappeared , and her fear and anxiety disappeared as well . |
| 13 | This was probably such an advance that it completely replaced and earlier form of life , whatever that may have been . |
| 14 | Once again , the fiction of Hollywood merged with fact ; scenes of fantasy portrayed on celluloid for entertainment — like those in Easy Rider had become , it was said , the acted-out realities of a group of people whose minds had been expanded to breaking point , until they performed deeds so indescribably vile that it barely seemed possible that one human being could inflict such wounds upon another for no apparent reason . |
| 15 | His dark face was framed by raven-black hair so perfectly cut that it barely changed its set as he moved . |
| 16 | There were so many cracks in it now that it barely held at all . |
| 17 | Therefore , at this stage , Soviet policy towards Castro was related to this broad objective and there is no indication that Cuba was as yet regarded as having the priority status that it later commanded . |
| 18 | Comroe notes , ‘ Our analysis showed that 217 of the 529 key articles ( 41 per cent ) reported work that , at the time it was done , had no relation whatever to the disease that it later helped to prevent , diagnose , treat , or alleviate ’ . |
| 19 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 20 | He then laid the tape across the diameter so that it exactly stretched from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 21 | This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees . |
| 22 | Moreover , a close reading of the quoted language in Section 3 above reveals that it neither provided a cause of action for non-delivery of the goods stated to have been shipped , nor deemed the statement in the bill conclusive evidence of shipment against the carrier . |
| 23 | But the spectacle of a few Labour MPs begging for Nationalist arms to link with , on the grounds that ‘ we 're all on the same side , really ’ gives a degree of credibility to the Tory scare-story that it previously lacked . |
| 24 | Because when you raised the telephone … he showed great irritation and pretended not to hear you , so that it immediately made you think that you 'd been unwise to telephone at all . |
| 25 | While on the whole we feel knowledge of the field-worker 's religion was not detrimental to the research , we believe it also had positive effects , in that it immediately forced respondents to confront their attitudes towards Catholics , as did the field-worker 's gender in relation to sex roles in the force , placing both issues high on the research agenda . |
| 26 | He also refused to play in the England versus Scotland match on the ground that it immediately preceded the Open Championship and to make the abrupt switch from matchplay to strokeplay would impair his chances . |
| 27 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 28 | I have to say that it rather reminded me of own early work . ’ |
| 29 | What seems to me more significant is that it both foreshadowed and paralleled the Hercynian , Tethyan and Mediterranean lines that were to come . |
| 30 | Schools were not compelled to employ an MRO ; in fact , to have an MRO a school had to prove to the media advisory team that it both needed and valued the skills offered . |